One of my clients thinks it is getting on the energy conservation kick, I say 'thinks' because so far at least one out of every two changes they make to save electricity is just moving the energy cost from one pot to another. The most glaringly obvious was their wholesale conversion to CFL for the few remaining incadescent lights in the building.
This includes the elevators. Elevators with 20 sockets in the ceiling for low-wattage bulbs which they have switched to 13watt CFL's. What they still haven't figured out after a couple of months is that the elevators turn off the lights when no one is inside. Which means that the lights probably cycle a couple of hundred times per day. Every time I get on one of their elevators at least one bulb is burnt out - with about 10 elevators in the building the are probably losing a bulb a day on average. But those costs aren't coming out of the same budget as the electricity costs so some short-sighted paper-pusher thinks he's saving money...
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